Improvement in cotton-bale ties



a. M. TAYLOR.

Cotton Bale-Ties.

Patented Dec. 22

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ROLLIN M. TAYLOR, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHTTO W. M. SMITH, W'. L. SOOTT, AND J. W. JEFFERSON.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,145, dated December22, 1874; application filed September 14, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, Roman M. TAYLOR, ofMemphis, Shelby county, State of Tennessee, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings making a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the lowerside of my improved fastening. Fig. 2 is a like View of a similar linkin common use. Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views, respectively, of thelower and upper sides of my link as applied to a confining-band and Fig.5 shows said fastening in position upon a bale of cotton.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thefigures.

The design of my invention is to produce a wire fastening for theconfining-bands of cotton and other bales, which shall not be liable todisengagement by the expansive force of the bale; and it consists in awire bale-tie provided with an opening for the inward passage of thedoubled end of a band, and having one or both of its ends turneddownward in a line perpendicular to the plane of said tie, substantiallyas and for the purpose hereinafter specitied.

In the annexed drawing, A represents my bale-tie, constructed of wire inthe general form of a parallelogram with one of its sides made double,as shown. One end, a, of the wire is turned at a right angle to theplane of the tie, while the opposite end, a, of said wire is eitherturned outward in a line with said end, a, or is turned inward in a linewith the plane of said tie, and at a right angle to the arm of which itforms a part.

The tie thus constructed has substantially the same interior dimensionsas the width of the usual bands employed for confining bales, and isused 'as follows One end of a band, B, is doubled back, and the tie Aplaced within the loop I) thus formed, the latter embracing said tiebetween said bent ends a and a.

the side of said tie opposite to its double open side. The band is thenpassed around a bale, C, while the latter is under pressure, its freeend is bent into the form of a loop, I), and said loop caused to engagewith the tie A by turning the latter to one side until the end a willenter said loop, then turning said tie in an opposite direction untilits opposite end will enter, and then turning it back again, so as tobring said loop into the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and cause itto embrace both armqsjlof 1e inward-turned ends of the band B and thedownward-turned ends of the tie A are to be placed next to the bale G,which latter, by expansion, will press said band ends firmly againstsaid band and prevent slipping, and will cause said downward-turned endor ends of said tie to be so firmly embedded within said bale as torender impracticable the straightening out of the wire composing saidtie, it being necessary that said tie ends should move over the surfaceof the bale before changing their position with relation to theremaining portions of said tie.

I am aware of the patent of Jas. W. Truman, dated September 24, 1867,and do not claim his tie, which is shown in Fig. 2 of the annexeddrawings.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, whatI claim as new 1s A wire bale-tie provided at one side with an openingfor the inward passage of the doubled ends of a band, and having one orboth of its ends turned downward in a line perpendicular to the plane ofsaid tie, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I affix my signaturein the presence of two witnesses.

It. M. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

' W. H. RHEA,

H. O. WARINNER.

